[canuck_conservative]

Right, but the article also points out that the amount has been going up on a year-to-year basis too:

2005 - 400 attacks
2006 - 800
2007 - 1,000

That more than a 200% increase every year.

[MNJohnnie]

deed, comprehensive data released by the NATO-led command show a steady escalation in violence since NATO took charge of the Afghanistan mission in 2006, spurred in part by more aggressive operations by the alliance and most recently by U.S. Marine battalions in the heavily contested southern province of Helmand. ISAF troops in Afghanistan increased from 36,000 in early 2007 to 52,000 now, while the Afghan army grew from 20,000 to 58,000 soldiers

Might want to read the whole thing rather then cherry pick certain data out. We are operating much more aggressively so of course attacks are going up.